1905 Movie Network News Recently, the first Macau International Comedy Festival held a press conference with the theme of laughing first, and the first Macau International Comedy Festival will be held in Macau from March 11 to March 18.
As the first Macau International Comedy Festival, this festival has three major sections: fun to hear, great awards, and laughs. The first section, "What to See and See", includes exciting specially invited plays and film screenings. The selection of plays is both avant-garde and popular entertainment, including the award-winning musical comedy "A Comedy of Operas" from Spain, which is full of passion and romance. The Voice of Comedy); there is also "A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football", which is elegant yet wild, with a sense of power and beauty, and realizes a dimensional combination of football and ballet; and Happy Twist is exclusive to the Macau International Comedy Festival The customized Cantonese version of the immersive interactive drama "Crazy Barber Shop" has a cast composed entirely of local Macau actors, ensuring that this Australian comedy is authentic and friendly; it is also based on the Chinese classic literary masterpiece "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" "Happy Liaozhai Sansheng PLUS" reinterprets classics with magical realism, injecting a large number of spicy jokes that fit the pain points of contemporary migrant workers, making the audience laugh out loud.
In the film screening session, three excellent films, "The Heart of the Rice Show", "A Practical Man" and "Crossing the Luxembourg" were selected for screening, taking into account the ironic love between a man and a woman, a humorous satire on social phenomena, and comedy plots that incorporate the details of life. It enriches the source of joy and the dimension of comedy, allowing the audience to think and gain something after laughing. More outstanding award-winning films will be released to the audience in March.
The second major section is the Joyful Awards. The Comedy Festival will create an unprecedented comedian awards ceremony. This is a crazy annual meeting exclusively for comedians. During this year, comedians will try to make everyone laugh. This thing breaks my heart. At this party, we will see the most outrageous awards ceremony and the most hilarious comedy performance, and let the comedians’ humor light up the night sky of Macau!
The third major section is the Laughter and Discussion section, which covers industry forums, film master classes and cross-border exchanges on comedy psychology. The festival will invite front-line directors, screenwriters, actors and experts in various professional fields in the field of comedy creation to communicate and discuss with everyone, face the current situation and difficulties of comedy creation, help new comedies break through and grow, and accumulate more new forces for the comedy industry. Cross-border communication studies and analyzes the positive psychology therapy behind laughter from a psychological perspective, providing solid scientific basis for comedy creators, helping them better understand the audience and create works that are more relevant and loved by the public. . At the same time, this comedy festival also announced that it will launch a venture capital segment next year to provide stronger support for comedy creation. In order to realize the concept of one festival and two places, the forum section of this comedy festival will be held in Hengqin.
In addition, on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, the Comedy Festival has also been invited to participate in Macau's most iconic festive event - the New Year's Float Parade, a 29-person performance group composed of dancers + choreographers, combined with theatrical elements and original music by Happy Twist Based on the "Disco Night" of the drama "Dongguan East", we will show you a performance with both charm and comedy atmosphere, bringing you full of good luck and good luck. In addition, the theme light box of this year’s Macau International Comedy Festival was also installed on the banks of Yawen Lake in Nanwan, Macau, attracting many tourists to stop and check in.
As a unique event that focuses on comedy, guests attending the event have high hopes for the future of the Macau International Comedy Festival. In her speech, the Director of the Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau, Leong Wai Man, said that for Macau, a comedy festival with innovative themes will be held in Macau, presenting a The large-scale comprehensive carnival-style festival, with comedy as its core and integrating performances, entertainment, and commercial consumption, has a positive role in enriching Macao's performance elements, developing cultural and tourism integration projects, and linking exchanges and cooperation between Macao and the mainland.In the future, the Cultural Affairs Bureau will also establish more iconic performance brands to strengthen the cultural and artistic connotation of the "City of Performing Arts", enrich Macao's cultural tourism resources, and create a diverse, distinctive and dynamic cultural Macao.